Word: tornado
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family car. They were duly rewarded at 12:59 a.m. as a few droplets of rain fell, sending up New Year's Eve whoops all over town. The manifestation proved to be merely an overture, however. At 5 in the afternoon, the tail end of a nearby tornado dumped a drenching .59 inches of rain on Waynesburg within 2% hours. Observed one soaked resident: "We did need a few drops, but this was ridiculous...
Many thought that they had decided that in December 1972, when they put into power the first Labor government in 23 years. In short order, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, the towering (6 ft. 4 in.) tornado of Australian politics, abolished the draft, and made it clear to both the U.S. and Britain that they could no longer count on unquestioning Aussie support of their Pacific policies. At home his broom was just as brisk, and his Labor government imposed restrictions on big multinational corporations, which control about two-thirds of the country's mining, and gave big boosts...
Plainly Shaken. Nixon was scarcely home before he took to the road again. On Tuesday, he flew to the Ohio farming town of Xenia, which had been virtually destroyed by a tornado the previous week. For 2½ hours, he toured the devastated area by helicopter and by car, and was plainly shaken. "In terms of destruction, just total devastation, this is the worst I have seen," he said. He ordered Administration officials to cut through the red tape and speed aid to rebuild the town. "Within a matter of two or three years," he promised, "you are going...
Weathermen issued increasingly urgent warnings to residents in "Tornado Alley," that vast stretch of plains lying be tween the Appalachians and the Rockies and sweeping from Georgia and Alabama up to Canada. When the storms hit in midweek, the tornado fun nels were twirling at 200 m.p.h...
From Decatur, Ala., to Windsor, Ont., tornado winds chewed up homes and businesses, sent cars, buses and even freight trains spinning aloft, toppled massive power line towers and wiped out whole families. More than 60 twisters flickered out of the sky over an eleven-state area, claiming more than 300 lives and destroying property worth nearly $400 million. It was the most devastating salvo of tornadoes to hit the U.S. since 1925, when 689 were killed. President Nixon declared Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Georgia and Tennessee disaster areas. Vice President Ford, after viewing devastated portions of Ohio from...